Auckland Council is urging those who have not voted yet to get in quick and do it this morning.
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Voting closes at midday, and ballot boxes will be open in all public libraries, and in Auckland at Britomart station until then.
This year's turnout in the city is expected to fall short of the goal of 40 percent, and last night was just under the 35.5 percent of the last local government election.
The Auckland Council elections planning manager, Glyn Walters, said there was a push to vote as the closing time approaches.
"We would love to get to 40 percent but we're not sure at this stage whether we'll get that far but we're certainly getting a last minute rush.
"We're encouraging all those late Kiwis, those late Aucklanders, to get their votes into one of our ballot boxes by noon. We do close the ballot boxes sharp at noon so they need to be there by then."
Mr Walters said with around 95 percent of the votes counted the first results for the mayor, council and local boards would be out at about 2pm.
"There may be some close calls in there that we would caution people [against] choosing a winner because we still haven't counted the special votes."
Special votes and any remaining late votes that cannot be counted by 2pm will be done by Thursday when the final results are announced.
The results for the District Health Boards will be out on Sunday.